VUMC Institutional Shared Resource Oversight Committee (ISROC)

Executive oversight of core facilities is accomplished through office of the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) and the work of the Institutional Shared Resources Oversight Committee (ISROC). This committee reviews institutional status for eligible cores, provides a framework for institutional support of core facilities, and advises on membership for individual core advisory committees. The Oversight Committee also receives proposals for new core facilities, considers new or ongoing investment in existing cores, and receives reports from individual core advisory committees. Based on this review and in the context of the Medical Center’s strategic plan for the research enterprise, the ISROC makes recommendations for institutional support of core facilities to the EVPR. In addition, the ISROC reviews proposals for Shared Instrumentation grants to be submitted by Vanderbilt investigators. To ensure that submitted proposals are unique and appropriately supported by the institution, the ISROC reviews proposed plans for resource sharing, arbitrates potentially overlapping submissions and makes recommendations for matching fund commitments. Members of the Institutional Shared Resources Oversight Committee are appointed by the EVPR.

The Oversight Committee is composed of:

2 Core Directors

4 Major users

2 Department Chairs or designee

2 Center Directors or designee

2 new or junior faculty members

ex officio members:

Executive Vice Presidents for Research (Basic Science, and Clinical-Translational Research)